Richard Madelaine explains how the challenging complexity of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the past twenty years. His introduction and commentary, presented alongside the New Cambridge edition of the text, provide the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.
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Richard Madelaine explains how the challenging complexity of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra has at different times inhibited or promoted its success on the stage, and accounts for the remarkable resurgence of performances in the last twenty years. His introduction and commentary on the text provide the most detailed, extensive and up-to-date history of the play on stage and screen, in and beyond Britain. In the process he reveals not only the rich plurality of possible readings of the play, but also changing attitudes to Shakespeare.
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In view of the gradual narrowing of the Shakespeare repertoire, the frequency of performance of Antony and Cleopatra in the last twenty-five years is a remarkable phenomenon in a strange stage history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Michael Billington, Byam Shaw, Daily Telegraph, Benedict Nightingale, Brief Chronicles, Financial Times, New York, Vanessa Redgrave, Illustrated London News, Shakespeare Observed, Glenda Jackson, Sunday Times, Evening Standard, Mark Antony, New Statesman, Birmingham Post, Irving Wardle, Judi Dench, Michael Coveney, Power of Desire, Helen Mirren, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Jeremy Kingston, Stratford-upon-Avon Herald New!
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In view of the gradual narrowing of the Shakespeare repertoire, the frequency of performance of Antony and Cleopatra in the last twenty-five years is a remarkable phenomenon in a strange stage history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
first messenger scene, unidentified newspaper review, barge speech, galley scene, hoy actors, acting edition, traverse curtains, television version, major supporting roles, touring production Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Michael Billington, Byam Shaw, Daily Telegraph, Benedict Nightingale, Brief Chronicles, Financial Times, New York, Vanessa Redgrave, Illustrated London News, Shakespeare Observed, Glenda Jackson, Sunday Times, Evening Standard, Mark Antony, New Statesman, Birmingham Post, Irving Wardle, Judi Dench, Michael Coveney, Power of Desire, Helen Mirren, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Jeremy Kingston, Stratford-upon-Avon Herald New!
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